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What does Wiesel say about "memory" in his speech

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He says that we must never forget what happened, and that forgetting such a terrible crime against humanity would be like being accomplices in the crime itself. We must forever keep it in our memories. He was referring to the holocaust.

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Elie Wiesel didn't need Holocaust deniers to lend immediacy to his discussion about the importance of learning and memory, but there they were anyway, three men standing outside the Symphony Center Sunday morning holding an anti-Semitic banner and barking such nonsense as, "There never was a Holocaust.
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